Smile for the Cameras: A Novel
Suspense and thrillers
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
An actress desperate to reclaim her fame must survive the real-life plot of the horror movie that made her famous in this psychologically twisted locked-room thriller.&“A gloriously glossy solid slasher with more unexpected twists than a roller coaster . .… . Fans of &’90s horror flicks (like me) are going to lap this up.&”—John Marrs, USA Today bestselling author of The Family ExperimentTwenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren&’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie&’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind.Since her mother&’s passing, Ella has decided to return to the silver screen. And with the cast and crew of Grad Night in the process of filming a reunion documentary, Ella has an express ticket back into Hollywood&’s good graces. Weighed down by the secret she&’s been keeping all these years, Ella apprehensively makes the trip to the original set—a cabin in rural Tennessee—to reunite with her castmates for the first time in more than a decade. But when the actors begin to meet the same gruesome fates as the characters they originally played, falling victim to someone dressed as the Grad Night villain, it&’s clear their secret is out.Now, the question is: Can the final girl survive one last nightmare?